Embodied Cognition

Large language models can’t understand language the way humans do because they can’t perceive and make sense of the world. By Arthur Glenberg, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University & Cameron Robert Jones, Doctoral Student in Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego When we asked GPT-3, an extremely…

The Access & the Domain of the Mind — Sometimes I think that I could never really meditate. Sure, I can observe the thoughts, notice them rise and fall, but usually I realize after some time that this is still just my normal thinking and I always find myself still lost in thought. Maybe this is enough. Maybe this…

7 weeks into the year and this is journal number 3. It turns out there are few challenges I’m facing in the process of keeping a weekly journal. First, it’s hard to let go and not finesse a piece of writing. I started writing a journal a week ago about…

Recently we had a retro for our division, to review 2022. Instead of using the standard templates online for retrospectives, we experimented with the hexagon-shaped sticies for the retro. This was a tool I had used in the Cynefin Basecamp course I attended earlier in the year. Hexagons are often…

Business Recent promising successes of LLM (Large Language Models) and other impressive advancements in Cognitive Services such as speech, computer vision, etc. do suggest the growing expectations from the next generation AI agents. In the previous article here we highlighted an Embodied AI use case and shared a point of…

Team SHAAE. Ellis, Helena, Shahan, Akshay. 09/27/2022 Image: Individual thoughts as bullet points Helena Guo: Breathing Exercise — The goal of this exercise is to perceive partner’s breathe and take turns leading each breathing. For Ellis and I, we shared one chair and start perceiving each breathe. At first, it was hard for me to feel his breathe…

If you’ve ever tried self-development and failed at it, embodiment might be the area to look into. Being a self-development writer myself, I have noticed that understanding the concepts behind whatever I am working on is one thing, embodying them is a whole different story. …

A crack of ice leads to reminders of the mind-body connection — For the past several months, as my kid and I walked to school, we spent every morning seeking out ice: small puddles that had lightly frozen over, or the crinkly edges of snowmelt along the sidewalk. …

Embodiment; Inner Work; Trust — “To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground”. — Stephen Covey Grounding Education in Human Interaction In a very general sense, education is a social undertaking; it is fundamentally about humans that interact in a manner that helps people to grow and to learn, building on the human capacity…